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Women's history
Personal papers
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
In addition to women's personal papers, some materials written by women may be found among other collections by searching for their names in QuickSearch. Many of these materials, which include letters, diaries, poems, account books, and scrapbooks, were cataloged with the subject term "women studies."
- Personal Papers (male and female): view Family and personal papers
- View a list of archival materials cataloged with the subject "women studies" in chronological order
Politics and reform
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
Awareness and reform movements
- American Association of University Women (AAUW), New Jersey Division records, 1928-1985
- American Association of University Women (AAUW), Pequannock Township Branch records, 1967-1983
- Mary Dyckman papers, 1903-1982
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union Mercer County, N.J, records, 1876-1981
- Marian Stephenson Olden papers, 1934-1970
- Orlie Pell papers, ca. 1920-1973. Stored off-site
- Women's Project of New Jersey records, 1984-2004
Suffragist movement
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton Memorial Collection, 1839-1902
- League of Women Voters of New Jersey records, 1920-1991. Stored off-site
- Newark League of Women Voters records, 1908-1930
- New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association records, 1911-1938
- Lena Anthony Robbins papers, 1917-1945
Women in politics and government
Women in businesses and professions
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
- Account books: see Business, Industries, and Organizations
- American Association of University Women (AAUW), New Jersey Division records, 1928-1985
- New Jersey Federation of Business and Professional Women records, 1919-1998. Stored off-site
- New Jersey State Nurses Association records, ca. 1901-2009
- Mary G. Roebling papers, 1897-1994. Stored off-site
- SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society records, 1974-1984
Women in the arts
For finding aids and additional information contact our reference services. Materials stored off-site must be requested three days in advance.
For women authors and artists in composite collections, see collections appearing in Literature and the Arts
Writing and children's books
- Adele de Leeuw, 1913-1987
- Rutgers University collection of children's literature, 1939-1991
- Beryl De Zoete: see Arthur D. Waley papers, 1912-1961
- Sisters in Crime records, 1979-2004